Carriage-seat



(No Model.)

G. D. RMVISDELL. CARRIAGE SEAT. No. 421,970. Patented Feb. 25 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. RAMSDELL, OF ROCHESTER, NEWV YORK.

CARRIAGE-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,970, dated February25, 1890.

Application filed July 5, 1889.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. RAMSDELL, of Rochester, in the county ofMonroe and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Carriage- Seats; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the drawings accompanying this application.

My improvement relates to. supplementary seats for carriages, by whichmeans a third person can ride with comfort. Such seats are known.

My invention consists of a supplementary seat provided with anopen-ended loop on its under side adapted to be hooked around the backof the carriage-cushion, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of the supplementary seat.Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is a front elevation lookingin the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, and showing in dotted lines afront elevation of the cushion to which the seat is attached.

A indicates the supplementary seat, and B the cushion to which it isattached. The seat consists of a double-armed metallic loop a, forming afastening open on its front side, but closed on its back, and of suchshape that it can be hooked around the cushion of the carriage; also, astandard Z), of any suit able shape, attached on the front end of theupper leaf of the loop, and a seat proper c, which is secured to the topof the standard by long screw-bolts (Z (Z that are slotted at the lowerends to enable them to be turned by a screw-driver, and are providedwith nuts at their upper ends, which are sunken in the wood, so as notto interfere with the upholstering. The seat is of small size, butsufficient to support the occupant who sits thereon.

In use the loop is hooked around the cushion of the main seat and restsmidway of the width of the main seat, and the supplementary seat 0 restsdirectly above the front of the main seat at such elevation as to allowthe legs of the persons who occupy the two sides of the main seat torest beneath it without bearing the weight above. The third view, Fig.3.

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person, who sits in the middle, occupies the supplementary seat, and hasan easy position with plenty of room in front.

To give room and freedom to the legs of the side occupants, the standardI) is made as thin as is consistent with necessary strength, and ispreferably hollowed or conca-ved at. the sides, as shown in the front Bythis arrangement a portable third seat is provided which gives ease toall the occupants of the carriage and enables the third party to sitback on a firm support, while the side occupants have freedom of motionand are relieved of any weight above. The loop, by passing around thecushion, is held firmly in place, and cannotwork out of place eitherforward or sidewise.

Nhen not in use, the device can be readily removed from place, and,being small and light, it can be packed under .the seat or in any otherconvenient place.

The loop a, being made yielding, can be sprung up high enough to enablethe side occupants to get into place in entering the carriage or toalight again.

This seat is interchangeable from one carriage to another without extrafixtures, as it is held in place by simply hooking around the cushion.

This invention is applicable not only to single-seated carriages, butalso to doubleseated carriages, sleighs, cutters, and all kinds ofvehicles where a cushion is used.

Having described my invention, I do not claim, simply and broadly, asupplementary seat for a third person, but

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A central supplementary carriage-seat provided with an open-ended loopon its under side capable of hooking around the carriagecushion, as andfor the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

GEO. D. RAMSDELL.

Witnesses:

R. F. Oseoon, M. D. PHILLIPS.

